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Originally Posted by Russic
- If you find things get a little cluttered with windows everywhere, give spaces a try (set it up from your system preferences). It's something that is included in your mac but not everybody uses. It helped me quite a bit.
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Do you use spaces? I can't get my head around it? I will check out your link. |
Actually i only started using it a few weeks ago so it isn't in my link.
Basically just go into system preferences and select "Expose and Spaces". From there I just designated my top 9 applications their own space. Now when I open firefox it opens on it's own desktop. When I click on itunes my firefox desktop swipes away and my itunes window takes its place. I also mapped my scroll wheel button to it so when i press my wheel i get a grid view of all my spaces. What's nice is that at any time you need to combine things (such as a finder window in space 1 and an itunes window in space 2) you can just bring up the grid view and drag a window from one space to any other space.
Also, I agree with what you have to say about iphoto. I really like iphoto but it's organization is peculiar. I do what you do where I dump all my photos into a "photos" folder, get rid of the crap and then when I'm done deleting the garbage photos I import to iphoto. Yes it does duplicate your images but much like you I don't really mind.
You can find the iphoto file if you'd like by right-clicking on a photo and selecting "find photo" ... it'll take you to the folder where iphoto keeps it. Also one important thing to keep in mind that bugs me about iphoto. If you delete a photo from the application itself, the file still remains on your system (this is the reason I delete my crap photos before importing to iphoto).
As this process isn't ideal, I may be purchasing Adobe Lightroom 2 for my photo handling needs. I've heard good things. I believe they have a free trial as well.
Quick tip to the OP, quickview is very handy. Select any file and hit the space bar will bring up a preview of the file. Very handy for pdfs when you don't want to launch adobe reader. It's also how I determine which photos I want to keep and which to delete.